Nurses and smoking

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  1. Is it ok for nurses and doctors to smoke?

    • 280
      Yes, Its their body.
    • 192
      No, its not very professional.
    • 54
      Other, explain

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Do you think it is ok if a nurse or a doctor smokes? Because i know when i go to the doctors office with my boyfriend and he tells him that he smokes that he gos on and on of how he shouldnt be smoking at all. But then we go outside and see nurses smoking and such!! So what do you guys think?

well, i'm not a nurse yet. but i worked with this girl who used to work at a hospital. and she said that the doctors/ nurses who ever... were really party people, drinking, smoking, smoking other stuff too ( i mean at like paries ya know. ahah) ... is this stuff true? i mean ..she could nave been exagerating.

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Specializes in icu,ccu, er, corrections.

I just quit smoking two weeks ago, and sometimes still resent that I quit. I did it for my own personal health reasons. I enjoyed smoking. I wouldn't smoke around where patients could see me, nor did I take any unscheduled breaks to smoke.

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Specializes in MED SURG/REHAB.

I AGREE! Smoking is a very personal yet very addicting habit. Nurses do know how bad it is to smoke and they are constantly reminded when patient teaching.. but it is the individual's decision.

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I disagree with medical professionals giving advice that they themselves do not follow.

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Specializes in Cardiac, Ortho, Surg.

I think nurses and dr's smoking is no worse than nurses and dr's being obese

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Specializes in Public Health, DEI.
I disagree with medical professionals giving advice that they themselves do not follow.

So, what are you saying? That if a nurse smokes, she shouldn't tell her patients about the dangers of tobacco? Should she lie?

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Specializes in oncology, surgical stepdown, ACLS & OCN.
I think nurses and dr's smoking is no worse than nurses and dr's being obese

I agree that healthcare workers give a negative impression when they smoke and shouldn't do it. I quit tobacco 6 years ago. I work in an oncology hospital too, so I see some really serious cases on a med-surg floor.

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If nurses did everything they tell pt's we would be the most healthy group of people out there. Just like anything else, plumbers pips leak, carpenters house is falling apart, house keepers homes are a mess. I don't smoke, but I could go there with over eating, working too much, working under high stress with very few outlets, too much coffee on night shift , gosh I could go on and on. We give people information. It's still up to them.

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No, I don't think it's okay.

But, dude, I'm fat, so you can't really listen to what *I* say!!!:lol2:

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